skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is difficult to predict with certainty when or if an “AI bubble” will occur. Some factors to consider would be investment bubble, unrealistic expectations and/or security and reliability issues.
OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity
Also missing a fully functional ad blocker.
I'll disagree with your disagreement - in part at least. Apple is still bigger than Meta or Google. Even if they had a strong channel to serve ads or otherwise monetize data, the return would represent pennies on the dollar.

And Apple's privacy stance is a moat against these other companies making money off of their customer base. So for the cost of pennies on the dollar, they protect their customer base and ward off competition. That's a pretty strong incentive.
I'm saying that forcing particular technology leads to worse products in many cases.
This is incorrect. If the company is public, there is no way to buy stock from a particular set of shareholders without impacting the price of the stock owned by other shareholders. If you own stock in a company that is looking to give money back to shareholders, you definitely want them to do it via buybacks (rather than dividends) for the tax benefit.
If you ask an Xorg contributor, Xorg is anything but "stable" or "settled." A more correct analogy would be "collapsing under its own technical debt."

"Programming X is like reading one
of those French philosophers where afterwards you start wondering whether you really know anything for sure." - Thomas Thurman (GNOME developer)

"Wayland wasn’t designed to be a drop-in replacement for X11 any more than Linux was designed to replace Windows. Expectations need to be adjusted to reflect the fact that some changes might be required when transitioning from one to the other." - Nate Graham (KDE developer)

"Three people on this earth understand X input, and I wish I wasn't one of them." - Daniel Stone (Freedesktop Project)

"Let me summarize every wayland discussion on the internet: I'VE SEEN A WINDOW SYSTEM SO I KNOW HOW THEY SHOULD WORK PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE" - Adam Jackson (former Xorg project owner, Red Hat)

And the classic 1994 criticism:

"If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that." - Marus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation
Quant is short for "quantization" here.

LLMs are parameterized by a ton of weights, when we say something like 400B we mean it has 400 billion parameters. In modern LLMs those parameters are basically always 16 bit floating point numbers.

It turns out you can get nearly as good results by reducing the precision of those numbers, for instance by using 4 bits per parameter instead of 16, meaning each parameter can only take on one of 16 possible values instead of one of 65536.
I get 20 minutes from my Dell (not the XPS), with Vim. When it was brand-new, I got 40 minutes. A piece of hot garbage, with an energy-inefficient intel cpu..
So you are saying somebody with $500k of investments is worse off than somebody whose house just went from $500k to to $200k ?
I'm simplifying things significantly because I don't expect most HN'ers to know the ins and outs of pro sound.

Dave Rat has a good youtube channel, he also has some sort of insider subscription thing that I've never bothered with. I wouldn't say his ideas necessarily translate to every situation, but, he really presents these ideas as tools to use in a toolbox, not as gospel.

One interesting thing is that, we generally view comb filtering as universally 'bad', when, in reality, our ears do an excellent job of sorting out comb filtering when it comes to natural sounds. In fact, comb filtering is how we can locate a sound in 3d space with only two reference points (and, if you try, only one reference point moved around a little). That's remarkable, and points back to how speakers comb filter instead of mere comb filtering itself.

In practice, say you have a rock band, and your sound system has two arrays with subs spaced 40ft apart. Now, you're going to get a less than ideal pattern from that in the ranges where the bass guitar and kick drum live. How do you fix it? The answer is fairly simple, you simply run bass/kick in stereo, then, you delay the bass on one side by a little, kick on the opposite side just a little, then add some kind of EQ difference to the delayed side of each, then play with the delays until it sounds right.

Why does that work? Or does it really work? It's odd, because the math says "no no, it'll sound bad", the reality is, it can tighten up that comb to the point you don't really hear it and you can get good bass coverage out of a fairly poor system design.
Such a common design pattern. Is the "here is your one-time PIN to change password" really that much better, if the email account can be compromised?
Thanks for the replies. Points of view are valuable.
Fair point about it being in aggregate would what an aggregation it was back in 2014, 2015 and 2016. And it was a mix of groups and goals -- some were partisans who intentionally disinformed while others were apolitical and driven by opportunism and greed. maybe there was some overlap, maybe some codependence. But they certainly changed the world imho by preventing what would've been a more responsible Clinton Administration from managing the pandemic in the US for example.
There really isn't enough emphasis on the downsides of server side platforms.

So many of these are only deployed in US and so if you're say in country Australia not only do you have all your traffic going to the US but it will be via slow and intermittent cellular connections.

It makes using services like LLMs unusably slow.

I miss the 90s and having applications and data reside locally.
On the flip side, it's pretty hard for human systems to keep a nine nines success rate forever.
It is totally common in business for certain broad topics of conversation to need to be retained for legal purposes, especially written communications.

What makes you think "chat" is any different than email?

My (IANAL) understanding is that even if a Judge didn't order it explicitly, writing something like "let's not discuss this in email, meet me in the hallway" can look very bad in retrospect. Similarly, explicitly turning off chat transcripts (or failing to turn them on) when required may not be a good strategy, as this article shows.

From the article:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_37
"If electronically stored information that should have been preserved in the anticipation or conduct of litigation is lost because a party failed to take reasonable steps to preserve it, and it cannot be restored or replaced through additional discovery, the court [...] (2) only upon finding that the party acted with the intent to deprive another party of the information’s use in the litigation may: (A) presume that the lost information was unfavorable to the party; (B) instruct the jury that it may or must presume the information was unfavorable to the party; or (C) dismiss the action or enter a default judgment."
Really? You can find a laptop with the equivalent of Apple Silicon for $3-500? And while I haven't used Windows in ages I doubt it runs as well with 8 GB as MacOS does.
How much does it cost to get a device with comparable specs, performance, and 18 hour battery life?

Closer to $999 then $500.
> You are singling out "democratic citizens" as if it is some better kind of people.

They're not better, they're free to think, express their opinions, have agency over their lives. They're fortunate because they were born in a given place, or because they, or their ancestors fought for that change.

My democratic citizens are free to change their minds and change their leaders whenever they see fit. That's the beauty of democracies, it renews itself.

I can see you're resentful and stuck in the past, but you're on a Western platform speaking openly about it - you won't be arrested. Maybe you should look at the present and what oppressed citizens are allowing Putin to do in Ukraine.
In houses yeah, but in apartments, and any new developments I would definitely not expect to see windows.
Android Makers 2024: Practical Optimizations [video]
The top rate was that high, but nobody was really taxed at 94% because there were a lot more exceptions.
When they drastically reduced the top rate, they also eliminated a great many exceptions. Overall, the change was actually revenue-neutral. Which shows that you cannot compare that 94% number to the current rates and say that people used to pay more taxes. "Lowering the rate" was just simplifying things so that the printed rate more closely matched the reality.
The factorio guys are way too dedicated to squashing bugs for that.
Define usable. Imho before Nexus 4 everything was crap, Nexus 4 barely was enough (4x1.4 GHz), Nexus 5 (4x2.2GHz) plus software at the time (post-kitkat) was when it was really ready for mainstream
Agreed. The things I look for most when hiring programmers (assuming they have a resume showing they have the skills) are attention to detail, empathy, and ability to communicate without feeling like I'm arguing all the time or pulling teeth.

Empathy tends to win here: you need to understand why people are using the software and how they are using it to make good decisions.

Communication tends to be better with people that have empathy.
It's stereotypically Swiss.
I'd say from my experience the average Apple users care less about privacy then the general public. It's a status symbol first and foremost 99% of what people do on their phones is basically identical on both platforms at this point.
> Barriers to entry for content creators are raised significantly as mainstream computing is mostly limited to locked-down content consumption platforms. And Linux is only an option for as long as non-locked-down hardware is available for sensible prices.

Respectfully, I disagree partially. It has never been easier or more affordable to get into creating content. You can create cinema grade video with used cameras that sell for a few hundred dollars. You can create pixar level animation on open source software, and a pretty cheap computer. A computer that can edit a 4k video costs less than the latest iPhone. There are people that create plenty of content with just a phone. Simply put it is orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to create content than it was less than two decades ago, which is why we are seeing so much content getting made. I used to work for a newspaper and it used to be a lot harder and more expensive to produce audio visual media.

My strong feeling is that the problem of content being locked into platforms has precious little to do with consumption oriented hardware, and more to do with the platforms. Embrace -> extinguish -> exlcusivity -> enshittify seems to be the model behind basically anything that hosts user content these days.
> App stores aren’t limited except artificially

The point is this limitation is irrelevant. We've had foreign ownership limits on plenty of industries in America, radio is just the closest in being a literal medium of speech.
Same, but in our case he's doing it all in class. The kids that can't get it done or choose other activities are taking it home.
Out elementary and middle schools have a no to low homework policy. By high school the most they assign to non AP courses is 15 min per class.

Only assignment is reading 30 min a night, any book they want (including graphic novels). Yet that does not foster a love of reading.

I had a ton of homework, but still read a book a week (though I did not do sports, only band, so had way more time than most mainstream students in that regard).

My reading waned when I had kids, basically as working parents I am always too exhausted to read, I always doze off. So I can’t set a good example, which I wonder if that is part of the problem — my mom was always reading.
I can’t tell what you’re criticizing. Yes, computers get faster over time, and future computers will be faster than the M4. If release cycles are offset by six months then it makes sense that leads only last six months in a neck-and-neck race. I’d assume after Arrow Lake and Strix Point the lead will then go back to M5 in six months, then Intel and AMD’s whatever in another six, etc. I guess that’s disappointing if you expected a multi-year leap ahead like the M1, but that’s just a bad expectation, it never happens and nobody predicted or claimed it.
Wow. Didn't know about Train and custom dictionaries. Very cool.
Some which I use: lf, neomutt, moc/mocp, newsboat, fzf. Screenshots for some: https://nunosempere.com/blog/2023/03/27/soothing-software/

to a lesser extent: btop, htop (but I find the shortcuts confusing), csvlens (https://github.com/YS-L/csvlens), lynx (elinks, links).
About 23% of downtown Los Angeles is parking lots.

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/how-much-of-your-city-is-...
I was thinking the same thing. Any MITM can intercept the reset-password link email and set the password to whatever they want then login with the email.
Considering the explosive popularity of the Steam Deck and its doppelgangers, the Switch-esque form factor is clearly doing well right now, so it makes sense to stick to what sells.

Plus the fact that Nintendo's never been shy about iterative console updates: NES > SNES, GB > GBC > GBA, DS > 3DS > New3DS. And arguably Wii > Wii U, and then the Wii U was sort of the missing link between the Wii and the Switch.

Historically they haven't been great at the marketing/positioning around those iterative updates, but maybe this time they've finally learned :P
Yes, some places in the US DGAF, and in others there's not even a municipality to issue a permit, let alone enforce one. However, these situations typically are in places where high occupancy buildings don't exist.

But if you've read anything about disastrous fires throughout history, the reasoning for modern fire codes is rather apparent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nightclub_fires

The deadliest structure fires in history pretty much have one thing in common: people couldn't get out. There's something to be said for a homeowner who builds their own death trap, but it's a good thing that large commercial properties have to jump through hoops to ensure they don't create a death trap for hundreds of others, just to save a few bucks.

Wildfires are something else entirely -- forests are not man made and their creation is not subject to laws. You wouldn't argue that laws against murder are silly just because you could be attacked by a wild animal, would you? We regulate buildings because people build them.
Good life lesson: You don't know until you ask.

That's more a salesperson mantra than SWE, where for every 10-100 people you ask, someone buys something. However, I've raised money many times simply by shamelessly asking.

Second good life lesson: Don't assume things about others.

People who make $1/day, $10/day, $100/day, $1000/day, $10,000/day, etc. have fundamentally different priorities and motivations. Ditto on many other axes. Good synergies are leveraged working across such differences.
That's not a sync error: it's just a demonstration that all collapse theories are inconsistent with some other assumptions we like to make. (There are many alternatives, the most famous of which is probably Hugh Everett III's relative state model, though none of them are completely elegant.) It hasn't just been discovered: it's been known since the 60s, and developed on-and-off since.

Of course, we haven't really tested this because we haven't attempted to put humans “in a superposition”. Physicalists assume that photons are adequate substitutes for humans, in the thought experiment, but something's wrong with our intuitions, so imo we should adopt some philosophical rigour about this whole thing.
Knowing about some of these shell bits would be useful for someone learning about C++.
This is primarily a building code issue for residential vs commercial construction.

Office generally try to maximize square footage, this tends to result in floor plans that are very awkward to adopt into residential use, primarily because the building code virtually everywhere has some sort of "natural light"/window requirement.

This means that purpose built residential high rises tend to be "skinnier" to have more windows per sq. ft of floor space. Not to mention the very expensive changes (hvac, plumbing, etc.) required to support residential use.

If the building code was changed so that the requirements for office and residential use buildings were closer then it would make future buildings more easily convertible between those use cases. It does not solve the problem of the existing buildings however..
That is my kind of tickler/teaser. Thanks for the share.
I wouldnt compare that to only getting a new iphone model every 5 years
Design your next room with my AI photo generator/manipulator
You cannot tell anything about a person by giving them a test, other than their test-taking ability (you are what you measure). You have to balance it against context and other information. If all you do is look at "the score", you're measuring the wrong thing. If your test leads to questions whose answers display competency and skill, you're measuring the right thing.
> I am still using a IPhone released in 2020 with absolutely no appreciable slow down or losses in perceived performance.

Only because Apple lost a lawsuit otherwise they'd have kept intentionally slowing it down.
I maintain a list of all my favorites here (the ones with rainbows have TUIs or pretty colors):

https://docs.sweeting.me/s/system-monitoring-tools

There's also this list: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

In particular ones I haven't seen mentioned already are:

pudb (gdb for python), glances (better htop), memray, fdisk, ctop (htop for docker), dissy (dissasembler), fzf (file browser), micro (like nano meets Sublime Text), hexyl (hex viewer)
Not OP by there are 18 countries that have mostly unarmed police forces [1]. I live in one of them - Ireland.

[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-where-police-d...
I'm super excited for the next iteration of the Switch, which has been one of my favorite Nintendo consoles ever. While I appreciate Nintendo's commitment to mix it up significantly between generations, I hope they don't deviate from their wining formula too much on their next console. The main thing I'd like for the next generation is for it to have enough horsepower to be able to play big 3rd party IPs like GTA.

And joycons that don't drift!

An announcement as late as 3/25 is gonna be rough though as current gen games start tapering off. As always the bottleneck is the launch lineup needing more time.
Rumor is safari will have a good one built in and some kind of ai to select and remove ads on pages you want.
The Box Method of Science
It seems to be part of my muscle memory.

I likely got that memorized from the time that I wrote a shell (/bin/sh) tutorial back in the day.
Mouse and keyboard is still a better interface for A LOT of work. I have yet to find a workflow for any of my professional work that would be faster or easier if you gave me a touchscreen.

There are plenty of laptops that do have touchscreens, and it has always felt more like a gimmick than a useful hardware interface.
If the court would have believed that South Africa’s accusations did not fall under the Genocide Convention, the case would have been dismissed. This was Israel’s entire legal defense. And this is explained in Paragraph 20 cited above.

I guess I see one more scenario here, where the court did not find it plausible. That would be that the court found South Africa’s accusations to plausibly fall under the Genocide Convention, but did not look at the credibility of the accusations. However in the rulings of the preliminary measures, they do state that the risk of genocide inflicted on the Palestinian people was plausible, so frankly, I don’t think the court found the accusations implausible.

In any case, I guess if that is the case, I stand corrected, however given the mountain of evidence given by South Africa, and the fact the people don’t dispute the authenticity of those evidence, the fact that the court found the accusation plausibly fall under the Genocide Conention is almost identical to the statement that the court found the accusations plausible. The nuance here is so small that it is completely irrelevant.
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And flossing has ... not been shown to improve anything at all really. Which is why I truthfully tell every dentist that asks: No I did not floss a single time since the last time you told me to.

Also: My dad never really brushed his teeth much if at all. No fillings ever. No teeth removed. He used toothpicks "relentlessly" (in the XP sense) like while on the couch, while thinking through some chess moves etc. Turns out that's how our (smart) ancestors "brushed": with sticks.
"Sorry no" whatever. Khronos was discussing what to do with Mantle as it became Vulkan. Apple was part of those industry players who were invited to the table. Apple left and did their own thing, like Apple does.

These specs don't spring up fully formed. Vulkan was a collaboration long before it was named as such and released; Approaching Zero Driver Overhead/bindless was 100% clear writing on the wall for a while by then. Apple just doesn't collaborate; they demand control. That's why they didn't participate when everyone else was figuring out how to distill out Vulkan from Mantle & other close to the metal patterns that were already about.
The inability to appreciate when optimizing a design means not using COTS parts that Apple "haters" do is also amazing...
> Can we stop calling it "failing" when a company decides you're not a good fit? If you go on a date and don't get asked for a 2nd, did you fail the date? You're not just what they're looking for right now; not everything has to be a failure.

If you wanted to get the job, and you didn't get it, you "failed".

There's no need to sugar coat it.
Many of the cases that I know of where a performance bonus existed (like $million for every day the estimate is beaten) they finished ahead of schedule and under budget.
I finally bought a Switch for the family this last Christmas. Then immediately I get swamped by articles from Google about how the hardware is tired and they need a refresh.

I think people are off their rocker. The experience is still pretty magical in 2024. I get that people are tired of the old thing and want the new thing, but it's hard to imagine what stops Nintendo could pull out to make me want to pay more than the current MSRP for the existing Switch.

It's either just going to be an even beefier Switch, or something so out of left field that it's not going to cannibalize their still pretty brisk Switch sales.
I particularly like the Super Mario World one. Arbitrary code execution is triggered by an actual shell code. As in, it is done by manipulating Koopa shells in game.
“These simulacra crumbs are making me thirsty!”
I have been working on this. Feel free to DM me.
It's a similar idea. The only difference is that if the event is quantum, the universe is choosing for you (otherwise the flip is deterministic).
You’re right. What I’ve heard is that this is basically another area with misaligned incentives: for any given project offices are cheaper to build, have fewer permitting concerns, and cheaper to manage (a few big commercial clients versus hundreds of renters), and cities may prefer them if they’re tight on capacity for things like schools – but if everyone does that, your city is unappealing and excessively exposed to the business health of a few companies or industries.
Sure, there is no hard limit on the length of a song, but most are limited to <5min and based on a much shorter melody, just repeating in loop.
Now older than 10yo, I understand that there are additional variables that increase the number of possible melodies. Turns out lots of popular melodies only gravitate around 4 chords (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Axis_of_Awesome)